Epicurus's Famous Quotes

"If god is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then he is not omnipotent.

If he is able, but not willing
Then he is malevolent.

If he is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If he is neither able nor willing
Then why call him god?"

--- Epicurus (341 - 271 B.C.)

"Why should I fear death?
If I am then death is not.
If death is I am not.
Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"

--- Epicurus (341 - 271 B.C.)

Quote on Religion

"In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides."

------ Heinrich Heine, Gedanken Und Einfalle

50 Homer Simpson Quotes

This is a tribute to The Simpsons Movie. Watch it if you have not done so, it is freaking hilarious and I could not stop laughing at the movie from start to end.

• Operator! Give me the number for 911!
• Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
• Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... love!
• Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
• I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

• Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
• Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
• Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
• Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
• Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?
• You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.
• Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
• When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
• Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.
• I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!
• [Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!

• What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
• Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
• Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
• The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
• When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
• I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
• Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
• I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
• Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
• It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
• Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos.
• I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
• Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
• Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.
• Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
• How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

• Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
• Homer no function beer well without.
• I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
• Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
• If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
• I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
• I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.

• [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay] Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You-are-gay.'
• All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
• Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
• But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
• I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.
• Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.
• That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
• Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
• If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing
• I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!
• 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

Quote By Richard Feynman

This is a quote by Richard Feynman in one of his interview when asked about his view on all things mysterious (including religion)..... You can find out more about Richard Feynman here.

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You see, one thing is, I can live…without [sic] an uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live, not knowing, than to have answers that might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there’s many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask, why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer, I don’t have … I don’t feel frightened by not knowing. By being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. But it doesn’t frighten me.

Tan Wah Pheow Quote 11

"Just because the world does not revolve around you does not mean that it is against you."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 10

"Any ideology that is unmoderated by commonsense will just end up in the realm of extremism."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 9

The only difference between religious stories and fantasy stories is that the latter is more interesting.

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 8

"The value of a football player is not measured by what his team can achieve when he is on the pitch, but by what his team cannot achieve when he is not there."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 7

"You cannot do anything for people who choose to remain blind even though the light has been shown to them."

Nice Quotes

"Forgetting is a luxury for those who hold the clubs, but the victims cannot forget."

"The solution to international conflicts is always very straightforward and simple. But no one wants to implement these solutions."

--- Noam Chomsky (in a talk @ Iowa State University, 11th April 2006)

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 6

"There is no relationship that is perfect. Just because a couple have some minor differences doesn't mean that they have to go separate ways. I think we live in a culture whereby any blemish on a relationship is seen as the threat to the archetypical 'and-they-lived-happily-ever-after' model of relationship that is portrayed by the media, and thus when any couple thinks that their relationship is not perfect, they break up in search for the 'perfect partner'. There is no perfect partner, only one who is willing to compromise you."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 5

"I am not responsible for your stupidity."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 4

"If you attempt to deny one of your opponents by agreeing with another, that is called unprincipled. Or politics."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 3

"I have no problem with faith. I think it is the single most important thing in our lives, and I know a lot of my friends probably can't get through life everyday without it. I can't get through life without faith. I mean, how does one find hope to live when we all know death is our only common fate? Hence, fatih is important.

RELIGION, on the other hand, is the root of all evil."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 2

"Tolerance is having the patience and grace to allow lesser men to air their stupidity."

Tan Wah Pheow Quotes 1

"It is more important to be humane than to be doctrinal."

--- In a discussion on religion with friend Y.

Quote by Robyn Hitchcock and my comments

“It is very dangerous to mock people's beliefs, because you can be tortured and destroyed by other human beings …… very seldom do divine forces actually wreak their vengeance on you …… but it is very dangerous to be an infidel in someone's eyes. I believe very firmly in god ... in terms of spirituality. I also have an infinite contempt for religion, which I think is hijacking people's spirituality for political purposes, and I think that religion is perilously close to pornography in that respect.” --- Robyn Hitchcock

My two-cents comments:

Well, have to say I do not agree totally with Robyn Hitchcock's views. At least no one has died in the name of pornography, or blew innocent people to bits with bombs, or coerced individuals into accepting their views.

Sadly, that can't be said for religion.

Give me pornography over religion anyday.

nice quote

"don't call me a poet. because that is the single most digusting word that one can be addressed by. call me that, and you'll be associating me with all the fake fucking pretensions, the skulduggery, the weak-mindedness, and the unadulterated snobbishness of human nature."

found this as i was tidying up my old archives of files. forgot whether it was me who wrote it, or i copied it down from somewhere. i think it must have been the latter, though i'm not sure. if anyone knows who wrote this, please let me know...

although i think i wrote it....